Tear Quotes - page 3

Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning." (Anna Letitia Barbauld)
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. View quote
Philip José Farmer
Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope. View quote
Glenn Beck
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic? View quote
Saki
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. View quote
Thomas Gray
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wished) a friend. View quote
Thomas Gray
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. View quote
William Cowper
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear. View quote
Anthony Trollope
These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth. (Anacharsis)
Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye. View quote
Richard Ashcroft
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. View quote
Katherine Dunn
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. View quote
Virginia Woolf
But most, thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. View quote
William Blake
Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity. View quote
William Blake
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow. View quote
Democritus
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. View quote
Edward Everett
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys. View quote
Seth Godin
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn. View quote
Vanna Bonta
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! (Anne Brontë)
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. View quote
Paris Hilton
Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! View quote
David Bowie
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. View quote
Robertson Davies
My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. View quote
Eminem